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The extraordinary events of 1989 marked the beginning not only of a transition in a number of political systems to a new form and content but also of the development of a new kind of scholarship. Except in the former German Democratic Republic, the members of academic staffs were not replaced wholesale. Rather a self-selection began among scholars interested in government and public affairs to retool and to become social scientists in the Western sense. Just as fundamental changes were required in politics, so were they needed in its analysis. The East was almost an empty landscape for empirical political analysis. The need to document what was happening in the new elections was urgent. These elections provided a unique chance to investigate the creation of democratic party systems and to study voting behavior in the face of system change. But no tradition of electoral research had been established nor were there networks of social scientists. Recruitment, training, contacts, support and opportunities were all needed. This called for the birth of the Founding Elections Project, initiated by Hans-Dieter Klingemann.
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Taylor, C.L. (2002). Political Parties and Elections in the New Democracies. In: Fuchs, D., Roller, E., Weßels, B. (eds) Bürger und Demokratie in Ost und West. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-89596-7_11
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